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Title: Hey, I'm tweis
Post by: tweis on Wed, 11 March 2015, 01:53:39: Been lurking around here for a while. When I looked up at my tabs in chrome and 75% of the many were GH, I realized I had to sign up! I am a tinkerer and looking to build up a custom board. I have hand soldered hundreds or thousands of PCBs, but yet a keyboard. Time to change this!

My first and only mech as an adult is a KÛL w/ Cherry MX Clears - Double shot PBT keys.

Did anyone else shutter when Apple highlighted the new "butterfly" key mechanism with ~0mm of travel.
Title: Re: Hey, I'm tweis
Post by: whentheclouds on Wed, 11 March 2015, 20:53:07: KUL makes good keyboards, but assembling your own is another ballpark and will make for a very rewarding experience. have fun!
Title: Re: Hey, I'm tweis
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 15 March 2015, 02:23:26: Welcome to Geekhack!

Does your adult experience imply that you have encountered other mechanical keyboard before becoming an adult?

KUL is great to start with - pretty much all review of it I have seen are positive.
Title: Re: Hey, I'm tweis
Post by: tweis on Thu, 19 March 2015, 15:45:40: As a kid we definitely had mechanicals. Tandy, Unicomp, and IBM. No idea the models. They became "outdated" and "incompatible" with the update of computers. I remember, in high school, bringing a box of old mechs to electronics recycling.
Title: Re: Hey, I'm tweis
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 23 March 2015, 04:59:07: Quote from: tweis on Thu, 19 March 2015, 15:45:40
As a kid we definitely had mechanicals. Tandy, Unicomp, and IBM. No idea the models. They became "outdated" and "incompatible" with the update of computers. I remember, in high school, bringing a box of old mechs to electronics recycling.

Ouch!

I also admit to throwing out a nice old NEC mechanical keyboard - one of the nicest keyboards I ever used. Years later I found another one and more or less rejuvenated it.